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For several years, the Private Funds Budget of the Garden has 

equalled or exceeded the City appropriations. This is true of 
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some of the other “ semi-public ” institutions referred to above. 
It is probable that in no other cases does the City secure two dol- 
lars worth of public service for every dollar appropriated. A por- 
tion of the initial cost of grading and soil improvement and one- 
half the cost of completing the Laboratory Building and Con- 
servatories were provided from private funds. The entire cost of 
constructing the Japanese Garden, the Rose Garden, the Conserva- 
tory Plaza with water-lily pools, the four bridges over the brook, 
and the Richard Young gate was also met from private funds. 
When the South Addition of several acres was assigned to the 
Garden by the City, in 1914, the cost of fencing it in ($2,508.93) 
was met entirely from private funds, contributed by Mr. Alfred 
T. White. Without this, the tract would have been of no use 
whatever to the Garden. The City has never been asked to make 
any appropriation for living plants for the Plantations and Con- 
servatories, for publications for the Library, nor for specimens 
for the Herbarium. ‘These collections are all accessible to the 
blic without charge every day in the year except Sundays and 
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holidays. The services of staff members, whose salaries are paid 
wholly or in part from private funds, are available to every citi- 
zen, without charge, for consultation and advice on every aspect of 
plant life and gardening. Part of the cost of guards to direct the 
public, and safeguard the collections on Sundays, holidays, and 
other days, is also met from private funds. 
From time to time, the director of the Garden has had inquiries 
from the officials of other cities as to the relation between the 
Garden and the City. From such statements as those above, it is 
clear that the City derives a full measure of return for its ap- 
propriations, and that the cooperation is in every way of mutual 
advantage. 
Worvp-WIDE SERVICE 
To mention only the Botanic Garden’s services to the City where 
it is located would be to give an inadequate and misleading impres- 
sion of its work. While funds available have not made possible 
an extensive program of botanical exploration, the Garden has 
